PAINTING TOWARD ARCHITECTURE
THE MILLER COMPANY COLLECTION OF ABSTRACT ART
Henry-Russel Hitchcock, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Bradbury Thompson
Henry-Russel Hitchcock, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Bradbury Thompson: PAINTING TOWARD ARCHITECTURE: THE MILLER COMPANY COLLECTION OF ABSTRACT ART. NYC: Duell-Sloan & Pearce, 1948. First edition. A near-fine hardcover book in a very good dustjacket: a couple of mild chips and vintage tape repairs to verso. Former owners signature on decorated FEP. Magnificent fine-arts book design by Bradbury Thompson.
8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 118-pages, 40 pages of illustrations and 24 color plates. Foreword by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Remarks by Burton G. Tremaine, Jr. President. Acknowledgements by Emily Hall Tremaine, Art Director, The Miller Company. Designed by Bradbury Thompson.
Hitchcock connects the dots between modern abstract painting and the modern movement in architecture as seen through the corporate art collection of the Miller company of meridian, Connecticut. Bradbury Thompson distills the whole project with his usual sensitive eye and the result is one of the finest book documentations of the modern movement produced in the United States. My highest recommendation.
From the book: "Critic and historian of modern architecture, Henry-Russell Hitchcock discusses in this new book the relationship of modern abstract art to architecture."
"It is his twofold purpose to demonstrate how the abstract painting of the twentieth century has influenced modern architecture, and to present contemporary abstract painting and sculpture of potential value to contemporary architects."
"Mr. Hitchcock shows how abstractionism after 1911 has an important general influence on the revolutionary architectural movement of the 1920's, and explains in what way the early designs of Le Corbusier, Gropius, Oud, and Mies Van Der Rohe were related to the new currents in painting and sculpture which grew out of the cubism of Picasso and Braque."
Contents:
- Foreword
- Painting Toward Architecture
- Plates
- Catalogue
Includes work by FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, LOUIS SULLIVAN, CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH, OTTO WAGNER, PETER BEHRENS, LE CORBUSIER, J. J. P. OUD, LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, WALTER GROPIUS, JOHN MARIN, FERNAND LEGER, THEO VAN DOESBURG, PIET MONDRIAN, GERRIT RIETVELD, PAUL KLEE, VASSILY KANDINSKY, JEAN ARP, JOAN MIRO, LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY, ALEXANDER CALDER, STUART DAVIS, ILYA BOLOTOWSKY, OSCAR NIEMEYER, ROBERTO BURLE-MARX, SKIDMORE - OWINGS & MERRILL, PABLO PICASSO, JUAN GRIS, GEORGES BRAQUE, CHARLES SHEELER, GEORGIA O'KEEFE, LYONEL FEININGER, PERLE FINE, JEAN HELION, KURT SCHWITTERS, BEN NICHOLSON, JOHN TUNNARD, CARLOS MERIDA, MATTA, MARK TOBEY, IRENE RICE PEREIRA, JAMES GUY, JACQUES LIPCHITZ, HENRY MOORE, JOSE DE RIVERA, and MARY CALLERY.
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